The system of punishments in modern French criminal law

The purpose of the study is to analyze the criminal legislation of France from the point of view of possible borrowing of experience to improve the domestic system of criminal penalties. The work is based on the method of system analysis, and along with it also formal-legal, comparative-legal and concrete sociological methods. Results: The article expresses the position that the process of building a system of criminal penalties in Russia cannot be considered complete, since from the entire list of penalties enshrined in Art. 44 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and numbering 13 types of punishments, only some of them turned out to be in demand in practice, such as a fine, compulsory and corrective labor, deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities, and imprisonment. According to the author, the construction of an effective system of punishments in Russia is impossible without referring to foreign experience, in connection with which he analyzes the French criminal law in terms of determining the system of punishments. Conclusions: Based on the analysis, the article concludes that a number of positive aspects related to the regulation of the system of punishments under the French Criminal Code can be taken into account by the Russian legislator in the further improvement of the domestic system of criminal penalties.